ONE SIMPLE WAY TO ACHIEVE YOUR HEALTH AND WELLBEING GOALS

Another New Year has passed, and there's a chance that you've made some sort of New Year's resolution - or at least committed to making some goal to change. You’re not alone.

In a study by Norcross and colleagues [1], around 40% of individuals make a New Year’s Resolution, with many of these resolutions being related to health and wellbeing. The top 3 resolutions made included weight loss (31%), exercising more (15%) and quitting smoking (12%).

Other health and wellbeing goals to consider include:

Taking on the workplace team challenge to walk 10,000 steps

Looking after your health better if you have (or are at risk of) diabetes or heart disease

Setting goals by breaking them down into short, medium, and long term goals

Setting the right reward

Taking small steps

Planning around obstacles that may get in the way, and

Managing your expectations

…but somehow these goals just don’t seem to stick.

Why health and wellbeing goals and New Year's resolutions fail

Why is failure a real possibility in spite of your best attempts at setting yourself up for success?

Sometimes the answer is so simple that it’s staring you in the face. Or, rather, it’s not staring you in the face. That is, sometimes your goals may not stick simply because they’ve fallen off your radar. Out of sight, out of mind, that is.

Urgent and important things (e.g. project deadlines, studying for exams and tests)

Sudden and unexpected things (e.g. being told in the morning that you’re speaking in the afternoon meeting).

When all of this is happening it’s typically health and wellbeing habits that fall off your radar.

Does this scenario sound familiar - you spend the morning putting out fires at work, getting interrupted by colleagues, emails pinging, or phone messages, and by mid-afternoon you realise that you haven’t drunk a glass of water, you’ve only eaten a muffin, and your energy levels are flagging?

What if you had a way of being reminded to look after your health and wellbeing?

The one simple way to achieve your health and wellbeing goals

One of the easiest ways to stick to your health and wellbeing goals is tokeep them on your radar. It’s there, staring you in the face, badgering you to take action.

How can you keep things on your radar and hit your health and wellbeing goals? Check out these stunningly simple strategies:

Get an accountability partner (e.g. go for a walk with a colleague at lunch, sign up for yoga with a friend)

Set reminders on your phone (e.g. to stretch at your desk at regular intervals throughout the day)

Set Reminders to Move either through your mobile or computer, or through a fitness tracker

Set up your environment so that there are visual reminders (e.g. keep your sneakers in plain sight, set up a water bottle in front of you

Use a planner/to do list. This is particularly helpful for people who are visual in nature - having a nice visual cue to stay focused on your health and wellbeing goals may be just the thing to raise your awareness.

If this is you, we’ve put together a FREE printable Productive Life Planner, which includes a Daily Planner to help you keep track of your health and wellbeing goals (track your diet, moods, energy levels, sleep, exercise, water intake), and a Weekly Planner to help you track these health habits across the week. Stick it up at your desk, and it’s a nice visual cue to stay focused on your health and wellbeing goals.

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